An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

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War with the newts
Karel Čapek, Karel Čapek
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An edition of Válka s mloky (1936)

War with the newts

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Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book.

Working in the "fantastic" satiric tradition of Wells, Orwell, and Vonnegut, Capek chronicles the discovery of a colony of highly intelligent giant salamanders off the coast of an Indonesian island. Capek sardonically details all the reactions of the civilized world - from horror to skepticism, from intellectual fascination to mercantile opportunism - and the ultimate destruction from which it (and the newts) might not escape.

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AMS Press
Language
English
Pages
348

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Subjects

Czech Science fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Salamanders, Fiction, Science fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Allegories, Utopias, Czech Satire, Czech drama, Fiction, fantasy, general, Politics and government, Humor, Exploitation, Newts

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War with the newts
1998, Penguin Books
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War with the newts
1990, Catbird Press
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War with the newts
1985, Unwin
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War with the newts
1978, AMS Press
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War with the newts
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Edition Notes

Translation of Válka s mloky.
Reprint of the 1937 ed. published by Yale University Press, New Haven.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/6/35
Library of Congress
PZ3.C1695 War 1978, PG5038.C3 War 1978

The Physical Object

Pagination
348 p. ;
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

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OL5212248M
LCCN
75041049
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11909

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